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Headword:
*)adia/skeuon
Adler number: alpha,476
Translated headword: unequipped
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] unadorned, unoutfitted.[1]
"Taking an unequipped horse and inconspicuousness armouring, he drove [them?] at a march against the enemy".[2]
Greek Original:*)adia/skeuon: a)ko/smhton, a)nepime/lhton. o( de\ labw\n i(/ppon a)dia/skeuon kai\ kaqoplismo\n a)nepi/fanton, ba/dhn prosh/launen pro\s tou\s polemi/ous.
Notes:
The headword is either masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective; the former if, as seems probable, it is extracted from the quotation which follows.
[2] Quotation, transmitted (in Adler's view) via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti, unidentifiable (but perhaps from Arrian, Parthica: see Roos p.57).
Keywords: biography; clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 23 October 1999@03:35:45.
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